Do your students turn off the lights when they leave your classroom? Is your cafeteria doing its best to recycle? Do your school grounds need some help from weathering and erosion? Do parents turn off their cars when they are awaiting students to be picked-up at the end of the day? These are the types [...]
Discovery Education and the DEN are great organizations. Each year, the DEN hosts two Virtual Conferences, one in spring and one in fall. These free, one day events allow educators to listen to and interact with presentations from members of the DEN Team, DEN Gurus, and other special guests. These are live, real time events, [...]
Here are the archives from the 6th annual streamathon. Enjoy! Just click on the title to be taken to the video. Bend it, Break it, Bust it Loose: 10 easy ways Discovery Education STREAMING can change the way you teach Matt Monjan Jim Morrison once encouraged his fan base to “break on through to the [...]
Educators all across the nation are unearthing the power of Discovery Education when it comes to promoting literacy skills. When it comes to science education, literacy skills play an important role in developing the “scientifically” literate learner. This webinar highlights ways to use a variety of Discovery Education Science TECHBOOK resources to enhance such skills [...]
DEN Summer School was August 1-4. Here are the archives. Just click on the session title. Monday 11am EDT Intro to Digital Storytelling Lindsay Hopkins, Discovery Education This session introduces attendees to the basics of Digital Storytelling and demonstrates simple ways of using the Digital Story format to create and publish. Resources: Click [...]
Tuesday night, Learning.com graciously sponsored “The Needed Virus” webinar featuring our very own, self-proclaimed DEN Princess, Porter Palmer. In case you missed it live, here it is. But first… the enticing description! The rapidly changing needs of the business world demand rapid changes in the way we teach students. Restructuring of teacher workdays and budget [...]
One of the highlights from the DEN precon at PETE&C 2011 was Kyle’s session, iLearn with iPads. During the presentation, he focused in on iPads in education, including the numerous ways in which you can use DE content on the iPad. He does a fantastic job of breaking it down into bite sized chunks and [...]
Last night’s webinar featured the 2010 winner of the Elmer’s Glue Crew Challenge, Alexandra Dexheimer. I’ve been on many a webinar these last few years, but rarely have I seen a more active group of attendees, soaking up the information Alexandra was sharing and adding their own experiences to the conversation. It was a wonderful [...]
You want archives from this year’s SciCon? You got ‘em! Visit the SciCon 2011 page to view archives from three of the sessions as well as Reed Timmer’s closing presentation (embedded below). Did you attend this year’s SciCon? If so, what were your takeaways from the day? Have you tried anything you heard in the [...]
Where do your students get their information about drugs – their friends – the Internet? Is this information reliable? Confused about the effects of marijuana and prescription drugs? Some reports say they are bad for you while others say they can help cure an individual. Learn the facts from Dr. Susan Weiss and shatter some [...]
In 1982, Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world when she created female investigator, V.I. Warshawski. V.I. uses her wits… and her fists to make her way in life. With the creation of V.I., Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either presented as vamps or victims. Not only has Paretsky’s own work broken [...]
Six hours worth of fantastic professional development have now been converted and posted! You’ll find sessions from Gail Lovely, Hall Davidson, Kyle Schutt, Porter Palmer, Whitney Mihoulidies, and Steve Dembo, all available for viewing online or download. Did you attend the Virtual Conference? If so, share a highlight or two from the event in the [...]
In case you missed it! Olympic gold medal gymnast Shannon Miller joined us Thursday Oct. 21 for a webinar on Energy Balance 101. The most decorated American gymnast in history inspired attendees to embrace a healthy active lifestyle and encourage their students to do the same. Here’s the archive: This engaging new curriculum, jointly developed [...]
It’s not every day that you get a chance to pick the brain of a New York Times best-selling author, but thanks to Investigation Discovery DEN members and their students were able to do just that. Check out the archive from our webinar with Sandra Brown. And don’t forget to register for the next two [...]
We had a fantastic turnout last night for Hall’s webinar about ways to use a Flip cam in the classroom. In case you missed it (or want to see it again), here is the archive.
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation just announced the launch of a new online curriculum powered by Discovery Education. Promoting ways to help young people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out – this curriculum is now available at no cost to educators at www.energybalance101.com This engaging new curriculum, jointly developed [...]
Did you enjoy the DE Streamathon? Of course you did! But just on the off chance that you didn’t attend all ten hours worth of webinars, we’ve archived them all and have posted them on the Streamathon 2010 page. So head over there and check out some of your favorite presentations as shared by some [...]
Now that you know all about PLN’s, learn how to jump start your own by connecting with the DEN and STAR Discovery Educators throughout the internet. You’ll find the DEN represented on just about every social network, from Facebook to Twitter to Diigo to Plurk. Learn what resources you have that can help you build [...]
Free your “Favorites” from your computer. Use Social Bookmarking to be as mobile as you are. See who likes the same sites as you anytime, anywhere, as well as collaboration options to keep in touch with those folks too. We will take a look at Delicious, Diigo (new features too), along with an introduction of [...]
What’s a Tweet and why should you care? And what does that really have to do with education? Jeff O’Hara, the founder of the educational social network Edmodo, takes us through a history of microblogging and shares his perspective regarding why it is significant to educators and students. Then we take a deeper dive into [...]
Discover what a personal learning network is and how you can harness it to be your own best source of professional development!
No iMovie? No Final Cut? No MovieMaker? No problem! Learn about some of the best web based tools for video editing and how you can leverage them to take digital storytelling to an all new level.
Learn how to make use of storyboards to visually organize your script and get the whole crew on the same page, literally. And learn how to use storymapping to create and build dramatic tension in order to arrive at a lesson learned – even in a deodorant commercial.
Build on your basic Digital Storytelling skills by learning virtually from Hollywood filmmakers. The American Film Institute sought to make the ‘language of film’ accessible for educators to empower them to harness the appeal of Digital Storytelling in their classrooms. The multimedia educational resource Lights, Camera, Education! is the result. Hosted by actor Sean Astin, [...]
Let your students use the familiar vehicles of commercials, public service announcements, the movies, documentaries and interviews (real and staged) to make learning come alive. Imagine Pythagoras selling his theorem on late night TV and throwing in the circumference of a circle if you call in the next 20 minutes. How about a book report [...]
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